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Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two

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Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two

Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two vertical
  • text alignment
  • repeated layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in two vertical columns. Left column text: 'he alone' (with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone'), 'makes me', 'FORGET', 'the world', 'still exists'. Right column text: 'he alone', 'makes me', 'FORGET', 'the world', 'still exists'. Red heart symbol is solid, pixelated, and replaces the 'e' in 'alone' in the left column. All text is uppercase except for 'the world' and 'still exists' which are lowercase. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. No animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text heart alone
  • black background white text red heart
  • FORGET the world still exists
  • two text layout
  • heart replaces e in alone
  • retro digital font
  • melancholic text
  • repeated text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two column text layout

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • he alone
  • makes me
  • FORGET
  • the world
  • still exists

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • repeated text
  • FORGET in uppercase
  • the world lowercase
  • still exists lowercase
  • blocky digital font
  • heart replaces 'e' in 'alone'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070824113634629718670
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
339 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fde7438ac0b44c555a5970a1b480bb64dd20b109e959f45ff1e4d4f696762dd2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
fde7438ac0b44c55
SHA-256
fde7438ac0b44c555a5970a1b480bb64dd20b109e959f45ff1e4d4f696762dd2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082348

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,646 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 737

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • two vertical
  • text alignment
  • repeated layout

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text arranged in two vertical columns. Left column text: 'he alone' (with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone'), 'makes me', 'FORGET', 'the world', 'still exists'. Right column text: 'he alone', 'makes me', 'FORGET', 'the world', 'still exists'. Red heart symbol is solid, pixelated, and replaces the 'e' in 'alone' in the left column. All text is uppercase except for 'the world' and 'still exists' which are lowercase. Text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. No animation present.

Description

  • Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • black background white text red heart
  • FORGET the world still exists
  • two text layout
  • heart replaces e in alone
  • retro digital font
  • melancholic text
  • repeated text

Objects

  • heart symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated text on black background with red heart symbol replacing 'e' in 'alone', repeated in two columns.
  • quarantined wordwall: repeated text columns
  • quarantined composition: two vertical columns
  • quarantined retrieval: repeated text columns
  • quarantined retrieval: two column text layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • he alone
  • makes me
  • FORGET
  • the world
  • still exists

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • red heart symbol
  • repeated text
  • FORGET in uppercase
  • the world lowercase
  • still exists lowercase
  • blocky digital font
  • heart replaces 'e' in 'alone'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:52 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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Full source records (1)
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)
Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20070824113634629718670
Archive entry
20070824113634629718670.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture
Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824113634629718670.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070824113634629718670.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016